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The Friends of Cooper Memorial Library is sponsoring a bus trip to the Show Palace Dinner Theatre in Hudson on March 26. The theater will present Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I" during a luncheon matinee. East meets West in this Tony-award-winning play based on a 1944 novel by Margaret Landon, "Anna and the King of Siam." In "The King and I," the widowed Anna Leonowens and her young son, Louis, travel to Siam in the early 1860s to teach English and other Western ideas and philosophies to members of the royal family, including the king's many wives and children. Anna finds the king a difficult man but discovers his inherent goodness...

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The Friends of Cooper Memorial Library is sponsoring a bus trip to the Show Palace Dinner Theatre in Hudson on March 26.
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